Legal battles over a series of collapsed structured finance transactions in which a subsidiary of Lehman Brothers was the swap counterparty could produce divergent opinions from US and English court...

This white paper looks at the heavy impact of regulation on investment managers, the mitigation of outsourcing risk, inefficiencies in corporate actions processing and the growing importance of collateral management.

Despite the flak off-balance-sheet vehicles have received since the onset of the financial crisis, dealers report increased use of special-purpose vehicles by investors looking to repackage assets. ...

Energy and commodity markets have staged impressive growth in the past 15 years, but there have also been some eye-watering failures along the way. Katie Holliday considers what has been learnt from...

The seismic movements in the financial markets last year confounded even the experts, as correlation took down every asset class and unwitting trader going. Victor Sperandeo, better known as Trader ...

Newcastle Building Society has been gradually building up its structured deposit business, including the launch of a new intermediary services arm in 2008. With the FTSE 100 index climbing and depos...

The UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) has announced an investigation into the sale of Lehman Brothers-backed structured products, the day after an early day motion (EDM) was tabled in the UK parliament...

Marketing structured products is a tough challenge, with both nascent and established markets battered by the Lehman Brothers collapse. Meanwhile, providers must also adapt their techniques to suit ...

Continuing a series of interviews with national regulators about structured products, we talk to Maria Jose Gomez Yubero, head of investor protection at the Comision Nacional del Mercado de Valores,...

The US government's bank stress tests appear to have been successful in stabilising financial markets, but some market observers believe they are obscuring broader systemic problems and could hamper...

Efforts to recover the value of nearly 200,000 derivatives transactions conducted with Lehman Brothers have been frustrated by a provision of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association mast...

This white paper looks at the Basel Committee's BCBS239 principles, also known as PERDARR (Principles for Effective Risk Data Aggregation and Risk Reporting), which comes into force from 1 January 2016.